Strap-brake.



H'. KOCOUREK.

STRAP BRAKE.

APPLicATIoN rlLEo 1356.28. lsl.

1,255,432. mental Feb. 5,1918.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, I'FEENET" KQGOUEEK. or JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNQR To JULIA B. STEWART,

EXECUT'mx '0F JQHN K. STEWART, DECEASEE.

STEAEBRAKE.

Specicatiori of Lottots Patent.

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Application'iecf,Do'cmber 2B: v19116,` Serial No. 139,385,

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from the channel side and projecting endavise. of the channel at the opposite ends thereof lugs which are lapped respectively on and under the lugs of the next shoes in the series.

3. A strap brake comprising a metal strap for encompassing the wheel to be held by the brake, and a circumferential series of unattached shoes encompassed by the strap, each shoe comprising a channehshaped member and 'a reinforcing member having end lugs shaped to fit the channel of4 the first member and an intermediate shank connecting the lugs, the channel member having outwardly facing surfaces for lodgment on the strap, the lugs of the reinforce ing member being flush with said surfaces when said reinforcing member is in position in the channel, whereby both said members ofthe shoe are exposed to the pressure 4. A strap brake comprising a metal strap for encompassing the wheel to be held by the brakeyand a circumferential series of unaitachedshoes encompassed by the strap, said shoes each comprising a channel-shaped member, and a reinforcing member having lugs yshaped to fit the channel of the first member, and an intermediate shank connecting the lugs, the channel member hav'- ing its opposite sides extended at the end portions and folded inward over the chan nel to cover the end portions of the channel, leaving an intermediate opening'to receive the reinforcing member, said reinforcing member when inserted in the channel having its'lugs at their outer ends protuding between andcadjacent to the in-folded lugs of the channel member, whereby said reinforcing member is longitudinally sto ped by the channel member and is expose to the pressure of the strap forcing it into the channel.

5. A strap brake comprising a metal strap for encompassing the wheel to be held by the brake', and a circumferential series of. unattached shoes encompassed by the strap, each shoe comprisingastamped metal channel-shaped member having folded inward from the channel sides and projecting endwise of said member at the opposite ends lugs which are lapped respectively on and under the lugs of the next shoesA of the series, the lug at one end of each shoe being depressed to accommodate the lapping lu of the next shoe, the outer surfaces of sait lugs constituting the seat of said channel members on the strap, the intermediate portions of the sides of the channels projecting beyond said strapseating' surface for engagingv the straps laterally between them. 6. A strap brake comprising a metal strap for encompassing the wheel to be held bythe brake, and a circumferential series of nnattached shoes encompassed by the strap,

each shoe comprising a channelshaped member and a reinforcing member compris* ing end lugs inclined away from each other and a shank connecting them at an obtuse angle to said lugs, the channel member having its channel partially-covered for affording a seating surface for the strap, and an 'i aperture in said seating surface to admit the reinforcing member there-through into the channel, the outer edges of said lugs of the reinforcing member when said member is seated in the channel being slightlyprotuberant beyond said outer strapfseating surface of the'channel member.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this 24 day of November, '-1916,

HENRY KOCOUREK.4 

